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Cashmore, Ellis.
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Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011 -- Relations with men.
Fame -- Social aspects.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities.
Paparazzi -- United States -- History.
Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Cashmore, Ellis.
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011 -- Relations with men.
Fame -- Social aspects.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities.
Paparazzi -- United States -- History.
Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
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Elizabeth Taylor : a private life for public consumption /
Ellis
Cashmore
.
by
Cashmore
,
Ellis
.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Call #:
791.43028 T239c
Subjects
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011.
Taylor, Elizabeth, 1932-2011 -- Relations with men.
Fame -- Social aspects.
Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.
Celebrities.
Paparazzi -- United States -- History.
Popular culture -- United States -- 20th century.
Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography
Actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781628920697 (pbk.)
9781628920703 (hc.)
Description:
viii, 416 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Life and times -- 1 The most public of private lives -- 2 Animal delight -- 3 Like a million dollars -- 4 With human failings -- 5. Inseparable from the gossip -- 6 Dismantling the fantasy -- 7 Believing and wanting to believe -- 8 Beyond condemnation -- 9 The devil's work -- 10 Every fiber of my soul -- 11 Facing oblivion -- 12 Voyeurs and performers -- 13 Rules of engagement -- 14 No life without -- 15 Everything is for sale -- 16 Other people's lives -- 17 On dangerous ground -- 18 Only the custodian -- 19 Nobody can hurt her.
Summary:
A figure of enormous charisma and cultural sway, Elizabeth Taylor intrigued a global audience with her marriages and extra-marital improprieties, as well as her extravagant jewelry, her never-ending illnesses, her dependency on alcohol, and her perplexing friendship with Michael Jackson. Despite her continued world-renown, however, most people would be hard-pressed to name even three of her films, though she made over seventy.
Ellis
Cashmore
traces our modern celebrity culture back to a single instant in Taylor's life: the publicizing of her scandalous affair with Richard Burton in 1962, which announced the arrival of a new generation of predatory photojournalists and, along with them, a strange conflation between the public and private lives of celebrities. Taylor's public life,
Cashmore
reveals, epitomizes the modern phenomenon of "celebrity."
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